"And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation"

Kahlil Gibran

“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re still alive, it isn’t.”

Richard Bach, (Illusions)

"It is said that life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life"

Terry Pratchett

"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong - the amount of work is the same"

Carlos Castanada

"What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us."

Helen Keller

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”

Ashley Montagu, (1905 –1999)

"Life's a voyage that's homeward bound."

Herman Melville

"Walk tall as the trees; live strong as the mountains; be gentle as the spring winds, keep the warmth of summer in your heart, and the Great Spirit will always be with you."

anonymous, native American

“Life is like the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority”

Edward Young, 1683 –1765

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

Richard Bach, (Illusions)

"If you live to one hundred, I want to live to one hundred minus one day - so I never live a day without you!"

Winnie the Pooh

Strive not, my soul, for an immortal life, but make the most of what is possible.”

Pythian Odes, 518 – 438BC

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"

James Dean

“Across the years I will walk with you - in deep green forests, on shores of sand and when our time on earth is through, in heaven too, you will have my hand!”

Robert Sexton

“He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt”

Joseph Heller, 1923

“We meet but briefly in life, if we touch each other with stardust – that is everything.”

Author unknown.

“The soul takes flight to a world that is invisible, and there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.”

Lady Jane Grey, the movie

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

(Little Foxes, 1866)

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love."

Washington Irving

“It was not frightening to die sometime, it was frightening to die right now.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (cancer ward)

“I saw him now going the way of all flesh.”

John Webster

"When you are born you cry and the world is happy, when you die the world cries and you are happy."

from the movie: One Last Thing

"The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation."

Herman Hesse

"I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone, because I am still alive and this might be the last day that I can tell you that I love you"

Don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements)

"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."

Jean Paul Richter

"with silent lifting mind I've trod, the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand, and touched the face of God."